Harry and Meghan plan to spend Christmas away from royal family

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are not expected to join the royal family for Christmas at Sandringham this year, according to media reports.

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are not expected to join the royal family for Christmas at Sandringham this year, according to media reports.

Instead, the couple are expected to make holiday plans around Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, although the location of the celebrations has not been confirmed.

“For Thanksgiving and Christmas, they will do whatever Doria wants to do. They would love her to come over to the UK and spend it with them here, but they will be wherever she wants to be,” an unnamed source told The Sun, according to a report published by The News.

“They won’t be having Christmas with the royal family. How could that even work? They know it would be too awkward and too difficult,” the source was quoted as saying.

The source added that the couple did not expect to be invited to the royal gathering and were not waiting for an invitation.

The reports come amid renewed speculation about the strained relationship between Harry and his brother, Prince William, and William’s wife, Catherine, Princess of Wales.

Claims that Harry and Meghan were planning to apologise to William and Catherine have been denied by a source close to the Sussexes, according to HELLO! royal editor Emily Nash.

“The story was saying that they were going to apologise and they were going to do everything they could to reconcile with William and Catherine. Unfortunately, it’s just not true,” Nash said.

She said the denial had subsequently been portrayed as the couple refusing to apologise, a characterisation she said was inaccurate.

“There’s been a big denial of this story, and it was described to me as nonsense, and that has now been spun into them refusing to apologise,” Nash said.

“I don’t think it’s quite that, but it does show just how bad the situation is,” she added. “This is essentially a story about no change.”